The Left Angle Cross of Individualism 2 (38/39 | 57/51)
The Left Angle Cross of Individualism 2 is a Transpersonal Destiny cross — its themes are played out through encounters with others, and its purpose has a fundamentally relational and social quality. The Personality Sun is Gate 38, the Root Center's gate of The Fighter, in the Individual circuit. Like all Individualism variants, this cross is built entirely from Individual circuit gates: Gate 38 and Gate 39 (Individual Root), Gate 57 (Individual Spleen), and Gate 51 (Individual Heart/Will). The Individualism 2 leads with the warrior quality most directly — Gate 38's relentless orientation toward what genuinely matters is the conscious front of a transpersonal mission that asks others to examine whether they are fighting for what is actually worth fighting for.
The Gates
- Gate 38 (Root): The Gate of The Fighter — the warrior drive for meaning and purpose, perseverance, the warrior that fights to protect what matters
- Gate 39 (Root): The Gate of Provocation — catalytic awakening, playful stimulation of genuine response, awakening of the spirit
- Gate 57 (Spleen): The Gate of Intuitive Clarity — near-psychic bodily sensing, highest sensitivity to guidance and vibration, harmony with what is correct
- Gate 51 (Heart/Will): The Gate of Shock — courageous initiation, first to leap into the unknown, portal into new awareness
The Theme
Gate 38 is the most fundamentally warrior gate in the system. Its highest quality is the fight for meaning, love, and purpose — perseverance, the warrior that fights not to hurt but to protect what matters. This is not aggression for its own sake; it is the Individual Root's most basic question — is this genuinely worth doing? — held as a persistent, non-negotiable standard. The Individualism 2 is most conscious of this quality: the life organized around the warrior's clarity about what has genuine meaning and what does not.
Because the Personality Sun is Gate 38, the conscious experience opens with the warrior orientation. The Individualism 2 moves through the world with an immediate, visceral awareness of the gap between what people are fighting for and what is actually worth fighting for — between the life being lived and the unprecedented, genuinely individual life that is being withheld. The transpersonal mission operates through this awareness: others who encounter the Individualism 2 are provoked, by the quality of someone who genuinely refuses to accept anything less than genuine purpose, into the awareness of where they have settled.
Gate 39, the Personality Earth, grounds the warrior drive in the catalytic, playful quality of provocation. As the Earth gate, Gate 39 ensures that Gate 38's relentless orientation toward meaning does not collapse into grimness or existential rigidity. Gate 39 at its highest — stimulating laughter and awakening a spirited, playful approach to life — provides the grounding frequency for the Individualism 2: the warrior spirit that can hold its seriousness of purpose while remaining open to the unexpected, playful approach that makes genuine individuality feel possible rather than punishing.
The Design side carries Gates 57 and 51. Gate 57 as the Design Sun is the Individual Spleen's intuitive clarity — the near-psychic sensitivity operating below conscious awareness as the body's continuous sensing of what is correct. Gate 57 provides the unconscious quality of guidance: the Individualism 2's warrior drive is not arbitrary — the Spleen continuously senses what the correct fight is. Gate 51 as the Design Earth is the Individual Heart/Will's courageous initiation — the unconscious foundation of the warrior spirit in the threshold moment, the capacity to leap before the outcome is known.
Alan Watts (6/2 Generator, ☉ Gate 38) is the most direct case study for this variant. Watts spent his life fighting for the genuinely individual philosophical and spiritual path — against the institutional religious structures that had normalized certain ways of engaging with meaning, against the compulsory career structures that insisted on unfulfilling work, against every form of normalized existence that prevented people from finding their own unprecedented way. His famous speech — "What do you want to do? You do that! And forget the money!" — is Gate 38's warrior question expressed as invitation: what is actually worth fighting for in your one life?
The Shadow
Gate 38 in the shadow is the warrior spirit that has found no worthy external object and has made the self its enemy — "locked in a fight with life itself, fighting and defeating one's own self." The Individualism 2 in the shadow is consumed by its own warrior energy, the relentless search for what is genuinely meaningful finding only inadequacy and the unsatisfying quality of everything it examines.
Gate 39 in the shadow is the provocation that has become compulsive disruption rather than catalytic awakening. Gate 57 in the Design shadow is the intuitive clarity turned to fear-sensing — the Spleen that detects threat rather than guidance. Gate 51 in the Design shadow is the courageous initiator now shaken by the threshold — reckless or frozen rather than boldly leaping.
The Gift
The gift of the Individualism 2 is the specific quality of embodied individuality that only a warrior organized around meaning can demonstrate. Alan Watts did not teach people how to be individual — he lived a fighting, genuinely unprecedented life and allowed others to recognize their own withheld individuality through contact with his. The Individualism 2's transpersonal mission operates through this demonstration: not instruction but the quality of someone who genuinely refuses to normalize themselves, backed by Gate 57's intuitive clarity about what is correct.
Living This Cross
The practical work for the Individualism 2 is maintaining the warrior drive's orientation outward — toward the genuine challenges that the Individual circuit is built to face — rather than allowing Gate 38's relentless pressure to turn inward. The warrior that has no worthy external challenge finds itself. Gate 39 as Personality Earth provides the grounding: the playful, catalytic quality that keeps the warrior spirit alive and open rather than grim and isolated. Gate 57 as Design Sun provides the body's continuous guidance: trust the Spleen's sensing of what the correct fight is.
The question to hold: What uniqueness do you want to express?
The low mantra: I wouldn't have been able to live a uniquely different way unless I went through a period of stereotypical standardization.
What's your life theme?
Your Incarnation Cross, calculated from your exact birth time.
Famous Examples
Alan Watts, Frida Kahlo, Hayao Miyazaki, Ringo Starr, Rowan Atkinson
